Contact Resistance and Thermal Cycling Reliability of the Flip-Chip Joints Processed with Cu-Sn Mushroom Bumps

Abstract

Flip-chip bonding using Cu-Sn mushroom bumps composed of Cu pillar and Sn cap was accomplished, and the contact resistance and the thermal cycling reliability of the Cu-Sn mushroom bump joints were compared with those of the Sn planar bump joints. With flip-chip process at a same bonding stress, both the Cu-Sn mushroom bump joints and the Sn planar bump joints exhibited an almost identical average contact resistance. With increasing a bonding stress from 32 MPa to 44 MPa, the average contact resistances of the Cu-Sn mushroom bump joints and the Sn planar bump joints became reduced from 30 m Omega/bump to 25 m Omega/bump due to heavier plastic deformation of the bumps. The Cu-Sn mushroom bump joints exhibited a superior thermal cycling reliability to that of the Sn planar bump joints at a bonding stress of 32 MPa. While the contact resistance characteristics of the Cu-Sn mushroom bump joints were not deteriorated even after 1000 thermal cycles ranging between -40 degrees C and 80 degrees C, the contact resistance of the Sn planar bump joints substantially increased with thermal cycling.

전기도금법으로 Cu 머쉬룸 범프를 형성하고 Sn 기판 패드에 플립칩 본딩하여 Cu 머쉬룸 범프 접속부를 형성하였으며, 이의 접속저항을 Sn planar 범프 접속부와 비교하였다. 19.1∼95.2 MPa 범위의 본딩응력으로 형성한 Cu머쉬룸 범프 접속부는 15mΩ/bump의 평균 접속저항을 나타내었다. Cu머쉬룸 범프 접속부는 Sn planar범프 접속부에 비해 더 우수한 접속저항 특성을 나타내었다. 캡 표면에 1∼w4μm 두께의 Sn 코팅층을 전기도금한 Cu 머쉬룸 범프 접속부의 접속저항은 Sn 코팅층의 두께에 무관하였으나 캡 표면의 Sn코팅층을 리플로우 처리한 Cu머쉬룸 범프 접속부에서는 접속저항이 Sn 코팅층의 두께와 리플로우 시간에 크게 의존하였다.